This may not be the sports story of the year but my colleagues have just told me that football in Regent’s Park is strictly off-limits.

The story so far is that baseball and softball have now taken over in one of London’s most famous parks. Apparently, the middle-class toffs believe that once the Premiership big boys take off on their summer hols, American sport should rule.

As an impartial observer, I think that the men of Hobs Reprographics printing company in High Holborn have a fair point. Their grievance is that a football pitch that they rightly claimed has now been stolen by the Yankee army.

'Our baseball friends have muscled in on our cherished game of football, in a specially designated area of Regent’s Park '

Now this is not a case for the High Court ,or indeed the Old Bailey, but I do feel quite strongly that an injustice should be addressed. Football as we all know is the Beautiful Game played by all races, cultures and all age groups. It is the universal sport that should never be banned or discouraged.

The information I have is that our baseball friends have muscled in on our cherished game of football. In a specially designated area of Regent’s Park, our laddish lawyers believe football should be kicked into touch and never played until the latter end of August.

As somebody who follows the game from every corner of the globe, your writer would like it to be known that football, at whatever level, belongs to everybody. Every child, adult man or woman has a legal right to indulge in the worldwide game.